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The Confabulating Mind - Armin Schnider

The Confabulating Mind

How the Brain Creates Reality

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
322 Seiten
2017 | 2nd Revised edition
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-878968-0 (ISBN)
CHF 46,90 inkl. MwSt
This new edition gives an up-to-date account of the causes, anatomical basis, and mechanisms of confabulations. It traces the history of the phenomenon of false memories, considers a range of clinical cases, and makes important recommendations for future study. It is essential for neurologists, psychiatrists, and cognitive neuroscientists.
Confabulations are recitations of events and experiences that never happened, ranging from incorrect responses to questions to a blatant confusion of reality. The Confabulating Mind provides the most up-to-date account of the causes, anatomical basis, and mechanisms of the phenomenon of false memories.

In this significant update on the first edition, the author analyses new and diverse examples of striking clinical cases, discusses children's sense of reality, and incorporates his research on a distinct form of confabulation that is characterized by a confusion of reality. The book also examines other forms such as déjà-vu, paramnesic misidentification, and anosognosia; looks at false memories as they occur in healthy people; and considers how the brain uses orbitofrontal reality filtering to create reality. By re-tracing the history of confabulations and integrating the latest insights into the mechanisms of confabulations, it summarises current interpretations of confabulations before making recommendations for future study.

This book is important reading for neurologists, psychiatrists, neuropsychologists, cognitive neuroscientists, and other scientists and clinicians interested in the organization of memory and thought.

Armin Schnider is Professor and Chairman of Neurorehabilitation at the University Hospital of Geneva. He completed his medical degree at the University of Basle, then went on to specialise in neurology in Bern, Zürich, and Los Angeles. His primary research interests are memory disorders, the neurobiological foundations of confabulations and reality control in thinking.

1: The reality of Mrs B
2: The history of confabulation
3: Types of confabulation
4: Aetiologies and anatomy of confabulation
5: Disorders associated with confabulation
6: Normal false memory
7: Mechanisms of confabulation
8: Orbitofrontal reality filtering
9: Perspectives

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 234 mm
Gewicht 488 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Test in der Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Medizin / Pharmazie Medizinische Fachgebiete Neurologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 0-19-878968-8 / 0198789688
ISBN-13 978-0-19-878968-0 / 9780198789680
Zustand Neuware
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